Anti-virus & signature updates

[Man-wai Chang]

.... their relationship is very much like drug addiction, reminded of the
Opium War in China!

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[Man-wai Chang]

... their relationship is very much like drug addiction, reminded of the
Opium War in China!

So this whole computer virus thing is actually a big big drug business...

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[Joe]

Doesn't China have a reputation for being tough on crime? Don't they shoot
major criminals in the back of the head and send a bill to the family for
the bullet?

Why not get tough with all the computer malware creators in China?

Joe

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Joe" <[email protected]>

| Doesn't China have a reputation for being tough on crime? Don't they shoot
| major criminals in the back of the head and send a bill to the family for
| the bullet?

| Why not get tough with all the computer malware creators in China?

Why should they ?

The PLA is in concert with them.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]>


| ... their relationship is very much like drug addiction, reminded of the
| Opium War in China!

Replied to in the "other" group.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Why not get tough with all the computer malware creators in China?

Are there that many malwares from China? I have no statistics on hand.

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[Man-wai Chang]

Like humans and food

Autos and gasoline.
They aren't addictions but they are dependencies.

I never understood why the virus signatures get bigger & bigger...

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[David H. Lipman]

| Are there that many malwares from China? I have no statistics on hand.

The problem is much is Gov't. backed vs. criminal organization like the RBN.

 

[David H. Lipman]

| I never understood why the virus signatures get bigger & bigger...

Because every day there are more and more items of malware identified and thus the
libraries of identification (signatures) grow.

 

[Man-wai Chang]

| I never understood why the virus signatures get bigger& bigger...

Because every day there are more and more items of malware identified and thus the
libraries of identification (signatures) grow.

Don't they all have some common pattern/signature, or maybe a common
stack frame?

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[Man-wai Chang]

| Are there that many malwares from China? I have no statistics on hand.

The problem is much is Gov't. backed vs. criminal organization like the RBN.

If US just told them all US military & intelligence facilities were
actually not connected to the Internet, they might stop doing it.

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[David H. Lipman]

| If US just told them all US military & intelligence facilities were
| actually not connected to the Internet, they might stop doing it.

All "US military & intelligence facilities" are connected to the Internet via the NIPRnet.

However "US military & intelligence facilities" are not spearphishing other Gov'ts. to
intall malware on their systems to gain military intellegence and industrial dominence.

 

[David H. Lipman]

| Don't they all have some common pattern/signature, or maybe a common
| stack frame?

Nope.

 

[ASCII]

However "US military & intelligence facilities" are not spearphishing other Gov'ts. to
intall malware on their systems to gain military intellegence and industrial dominence.

I wouldn't be so sure of that,
As fascist (run by and for business) as ours has become.
http://bit.ly/bzz0AJ

 

[Lars Uffmann]

However "US military & intelligence facilities" are not spearphishing other Gov'ts. to
intall malware on their systems to gain military intellegence and industrial dominence.

THAT is a highly disputable statement. *g*

Cheers,

Lars